SUNY OpInform 2022

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Schedule

8 – 8:45 a.m. – Registration/ Full Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00 a.m. – Welcome / Opening Remarks

9 – 9:30 a.m. – SUNY Update 2022-23

9:40 – 10:40 a.m. – Session I Workshops

1. Encouraging Your Students to Take Advantage of Support Services – Quintyne Hall, Room 100
2. Guiding Your Students to Educational Opportunity – Campus Center, Ballroom
3. Navigating Professional Health Careers – Ward Hall, Great Room

10:45 – 11:25 a.m. – Professional Exchange

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Session II Workshops

1. Helping Your Students Find a Path to Success – Quintyne Hall, Room 100
2. Assisting Your Students with Financial Aid – Campus Center, Ballroom
3. Inspiring the Undecided – Ward Hall, Great Room

12:30 p.m. – Campus Tours (optional)

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Workshop Descriptions

Guiding Your Students to Educational Opportunity

Discover recent updates to SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP). EOP provides access, academic support, and financial assistance to students who demonstrate potential for success, despite economic and academic barriers they have encountered. You will also learn how to lead your students through the application and financial eligibility review process to maximize their opportunity to participate in this program.

Presenters

• Mark Sander, Strategic Recruitment Coordinator, Office of Opportunity Programs SUNY System
• Alicia Lawson Cesar Ed.D, Director, Educational Opportunity Program

Assisting Your Students with Financial Aid

Explore developments affecting student aid and receive an insider's view about how financial aid works. We’ll provide guidance for assisting your students with the interpretation of award letters, as well as an overview of the “nuts and bolts” of financial assistance – terminology, application process, and aid awards. Deadlines and types of assistance will be explained, along with how financial aid offices use professional judgment.

Presenter

• Julieta Schiffino, Associate Director of Financial Aid Services SUNY Welcome Center, SUNY System

Encouraging Your Students to Take Advantage of Support Services

Assist your students in knowing what services and support are available to them as they transition to college. An overview of academic and student support services, campus safety, and personal support (including mental health and wellness) at SUNY campuses will be provided. Discussion about identifying and helping students in need, as well as communicating the necessity of self-advocacy, will follow.

Presenters

• Caitlin Bauer, Assistant Director, Transfer Admissions, Buffalo State College
• Frank Pizzardi, Director of Admissions, SUNY Old Westbury

Helping Your Students Find a Path to Success

Examine a wide array of SUNY opportunities to aid your students in completing their degrees and launching their careers. From SUNY Online programs, SUNY Pathways, and microcredentials, to more traditional pathways, there are many avenues focused on success.

Presenters: TBD

Navigating Professional Health Careers

FSC offers a wide array of programs and advisement services for students who are interested in pursuing careers in health sciences in a small classroom setting. Both clinical and non-clinical career paths will be discussed. Learn about the successes of our students who have benefited from these programs combined with one on one advisement.

Presenters

• Amanda Lavery, Program Coordinator, Pre-Health Professions
• Dr. Jack Thomas, Chair, Nutrition Science & Health Promotion and Wellness

Inspiring the Undecided 

Deciding on a career path can be a difficult decision as students prepare to leave the comfort of their school and the supportive counselors who have guided them. At FSC, career exploration is an ongoing process as students become exposed to different programs and courses of study. In this workshop we will introduce the Nexus Center for Applied Learning and Career Development which offers resources and counseling services to students who are uncertain about their academic and career goals. Counselors work to encourage undecided students to make informed decisions about choosing a major and exploring career options. The Nexus Center, in conjunction with our Science, Technology and Society and Geographical Information Systems degree programs will introduce new career opportunities that many students are unfamiliar with.

Presenters

• Cheryl Stratigos, Career Counselor, Nexus Center
• Dr. Edmond Douglas, Department Chair, Science, Technology and Society/Associate Prof. of Physics
• Dr. Douglas Gallaway, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Politics, and Geography